Showing posts with label the Purple Gang. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the Purple Gang. Show all posts
Saturday, May 23, 2026

Detroit's Pfeiffer Brewery and Johnny Pfeiffer

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The Johnny Pfeiffer plaster-of-paris figurine depicts a Revolutionary War minuteman playing a fife. Designed by Walt Disney Studio...
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Thursday, November 3, 2022

Ann Arbor High Graduate Becomes Mr. Las Vegas

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Moe Dalitz in Las Vegas publicity shot. Morris "Moe" Dalitz was born in Boston but his family moved to Detroit where he gre...
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Wednesday, July 28, 2021

The Fleisher Brothers--Louis: Unlucky or Stupid? (Part 1 of 2)

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Alcatraz--the Rock. Two bonus posts to supplement The Elusive Purple Gang: Detroit's Kosher Nostra . The Fleisher brothers, Harry,...
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Thursday, January 9, 2020

Purple Gangster Marries Shiksa

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Edward Kennedy Jr. and Joseph Burnstein. Most Purple Gang members made their mothers proud by marrying Jewish women and following the...
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Thursday, January 2, 2020

Mobsters' Women

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The age of the flapper--1920s Once World War I ended and the doughboys returned from Europe, young men and women were ready to shed th...
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Tuesday, July 2, 2019

In Search of Detroit's Purple Gang

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Photo credit: Don Gutz I just returned from a research trip to the Walter Reuther Library and the Wyandotte Historical Museum to fin...
Tuesday, August 7, 2018

Canadian Prohibition Loophole Fuels Roaring Twenties in United States

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Model T stake truck breaks through Detroit River ice with overload of Canadian liquor During the United States Prohibition period, the...